The body of a former Centralia man is believed to have been found Thanksgiving morning in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The Fond du Lac Police Department says it believes it has found the body Timothy J. Nance, who has been missing since Nov. 1. Positive identification is pending the results of an autopsy to...

Here’s something to think about as the holiday season is officially in full swing. Members of a Mormon congregation in a Salt Lake City, Utah suburb encountered someone they thought was a homeless man at church on Sunday. What they did not know was the man was a bishop for the Church of Jesus...

Murphysboro police are reporting a 54-year-old man is dead after he allegedly battered a woman with a hammer around 1 o’clock Friday morning, and then intentionally set his Murphysboro home on fire. Police reports say Thomas Allan Miller was suspected of battering a 28-year-old female acquaintance of Murphysboro after he contacted her and asked...

In August, Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill raising the speed limit on rural interstates from 65 mph to 70 mph, matching the speed limit in 36 other states, including those neighboring Illinois. IDOT fabricated approximately 900 new 70-mph signs at its central sign shop in Springfield intermittently over about a month this fall,...

Is the “knockout game” real? Jerry Elsner of the Illinois State Crime Commission says it is – teenagers trying to knock out an unsuspecting victim with one punch. “I was talking to a friend of mine in law enforcement from the Champaign-Urbana area, and he’s telling me that there’s so much of it happening...

Here’s a feel good story to end the holiday week. A dog and his owner have been reunited after the animal was found under a pile of rubble more than a week after a tornado ripped through a central Illinois city. Jacob Montgomery of Washington and his dog Dexter were separated when the Nov....